E243
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Poems: M586
Critiques: C421, C422, C423, C424
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| 湖陰公嘗奉使關東。到處作詩。有關東日錄。後余侍公讀錄中。廣陵早發詩。有側耳荒雞何處哭。警眠官燭及晨殘之句。余曰。夜半雞爲荒雞。公曰。謂荒村之鷄也。余曰。陰陽書謂。夜半雞為荒雞。鳴天下大亂。昔祖逖中夜聞雞聲。蹴劉琨覺曰。此非惡聲也。盖夜半雞本惡聲。而謂之非惡聲者。天下旣亂。則吾兩人可建功業云爾。公曰。是矣。卽令寫手改荒作村。近公之二子印公集。仍作荒字。無乃據未改本而印之耶。 |
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| 1. When Chŏng Saryong was in Kangwŏn province on an official mission, he wrote poems everywhere he went, which later became the Kwandong illok 關東日錄 (Daily Records from Kwandong).Later, when I was attending to him, I came across the following lines in his poem “An Early Departure from Kwangnŭng” 廣陵早發. 側耳荒雞何處哭警眠官燭及晨殘 I lean in and listen to a wild rooster.Where does it crow?Guarding me in my sleep, the candles burn through daybreak. I asked Chŏng, “What kind of rooster is a wild rooster?” He explained, “It refers to a rooster in a desolate village.” I replied, “According to the Yin yang shu 陰陽書 (Book of Yin and Yang), a rooster that crows in midnight is called a “wild rooster.” When it crows, there will be a great debacle in the world. In the past, when Zu Ti 祖逖 (266–321) heard a rooster’s crow in the middle of the night, he kicked Liu Kun 劉琨 (271–318), who woke up and said, “This is not an ominous sound. Because the midnight crow of a rooster had been an ominous sound, and we say it is not, if a debacle strikes the world, the two of us would be able to make some meritorious achievements.” Chŏng said, “That is right,” and he ordered the scribe to change the word “wild” to “village.” Recently, Chŏng’s two sons printed his literary collection, and in it, the poem still contains the word “wild.” I am unsure why they did not include the revised version. |
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